page_title: Propaganda in North Korea
section_title: Practices
hierarchical_section_title: Propaganda in North Korea / Practices
caption_attribution_description: English: Propaganda in Gaeseong, North Korea Deutsch: Propaganda in Kaesong, Nordkorea
context_page_description: Propaganda is widely used and produced by the government of North Korea. Most propaganda is based on the Juche ideology and on the promotion of the Workers' Party of Korea. The first syllable, "ju", means the man; the second syllable, "che", means body of oneself.Article 3 of the Socialist Constitution proclaims, "The DPRK is guided in its activities by the Juche idea, a world outlook centered on people, a revolutionary ideology for achieving the independence of the masses of people."
  Many pictures of the national leaders are posted throughout the country.
context_section_description: Every year, a state-owned publishing house releases several cartoons (called geurim-chaek (Korean: 그림책) in North Korea), many of which are smuggled across the Chinese border and, sometimes, end up in university libraries in the United States. The books are designed to instill the Juche philosophy of Kim Il-sung (the "father" of North Korea)—radical self-reliance of the state. The plots mostly feature scheming capitalists from the United States and Japan who create dilemmas for naïve North Korean characters.
  The propaganda in North Korea is controlled mainly by the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Workers Party of Korea.
caption: Propaganda poster
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